Join the Historical Activities Committee on a Fall Field Trip to Vassar.
Tickets $85 each
The ticket price does not include transportation. NSCDNY members will depart together from Grand Central Terminal via Metro North. A 3% electronic processing fee is included in the ticket price; to avoid this fee, you can mail a check to NSCDNY, 215 East 71st Street, New York, NY 10021.
What does this needlework tell you about the seamstress who created it? Why do we care?
Sampler on display at Van Cortlandt House Museum
You’ll find out when you join us on Thursday, November 7, in NSCDNY’s field trip to Vassar College in the lovely Hudson Valley, where we’ll view an outstanding collection of 315 samplers given to the College in the 1920s and 1960s. They originate from Western Europe, Britain, and North America, ranging in dates from 1660 to 191 -- one of the largest private groupings in a major art museum.
We’ll meet in Vassar’s new Heartwood conference center, hear a presentation by founders of the Dutchess County Sampler Initiative, sampler experts Stacy Whittaker and Joanne Lukacher, enjoy a catered lunch, then observe examples of the Vassar collection in the College’s superb Loeb Gallery. You’ll have time to ask questions and view one of the prettiest college campuses in the Northeast.
Vassar Collection